Colden by Abercrombie & Fitch, 2008

I was dissapointed when I smelled this. It's not fresh and it doesn't take you on a journey. All I smelled was pepper, a tiny bit of lemon and pepperment. My grandfather always carries around peppermint candies so it reminded me of the inside of my grandfathers pockets. It also smells like an old man and a nursery home. I was super confused why they made a scent like that

Colden is just another ambery woody musk. Smells like a chock full of other men's fragrances on the market today like those Hollister colognes or CK Euphoria, yes. Might work for a high schooler, doesn't do anything for me. Average longevity and sillage.

This would be a lot better if it weren't a blatant ripoff of CK Euphoria. If you want to know what this smells like, read the review of Euphoria.

Colden=Calvin Klein Euphoria. Tried back to back to back and I couldn't spot a difference. Slightly stronger, maybe, which would place it right in between Euphoria and Intense Euphoria which are both very nice scents.

Abercrombie seemed to fall back to its sister's stores for this concoction. For me, Colden smells like Ruehl No. 925 Signature and Hollister SoCal blended together, with maybe an added dash of pepper.

Already owning both of those, I feel like I could take both scents, spray one, then the other on top of it, and have Colden.

I was *really* hoping for something more original. Or at least, if you're going to copy yourself, they should have developed something based on the now discontinued (but still hugely popular) Woods.